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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023:0752 Moderate: Grub2 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2023
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Canonical has issued a significant patch for the Linux kernel targeting Ubuntu 20.04, resolving several security issues.
An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The grub2 packages provide version 2 of the Grand Unified Boot Loader (GRUB), a highly configurable and customizable boot loader with modular architecture. The packages support a variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures, and hardware devices.
Security Fix(es):
* grub2: Buffer overflow in grub_font_construct_glyph() can lead to out-of-bound write and possible secure boot bypass (CVE-2022-2601)
* grub2: Heap based out-of-bounds write when redering certain unicode sequences (CVE-2022-3775)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat buffer overflow software update moderate threat grub2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2601 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3775 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: grub2-2.06-46.el9_1.3.src.rpm
aarch64: grub2-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-debugsource-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-efi-aa64-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-emu-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-tools-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-tools-extra-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm
noarch: grub2-common-2.06-46.el9_1.3.noarch.rpm grub2-efi-aa64-modules-2.06-46.el9_1.3.noarch.rpm grub2-efi-x64-modules-2.06-46.el9_1.3.noarch.rpm grub2-pc-modules-2.06-46.el9_1.3.noarch.rpm grub2-ppc64le-modules-2.06-46.el9_1.3.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: grub2-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-debugsource-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-ppc64le-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-tools-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-tools-extra-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-46.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0752-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0752
Issue date: 2023-02-14

Topic

An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat buffer overflow software update moderate threat grub2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2112975 - CVE-2022-2601 grub2: Buffer overflow in grub_font_construct_glyph() can lead to out-of-bound write and possible secure boot bypass

2138880 - CVE-2022-3775 grub2: Heap based out-of-bounds write when redering certain unicode sequences

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